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      2025
    • Sara Capecchi, Antonio Lieto, Federica Patti, Ruggero G. Pensa, Amon Rapp, Fabiana Vernero, Sandra Zingaro A Gamified Platform to Support Educational Activities about Fake News in Social Media", (to appear) in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

      • 2024
    • Antonio Lieto, Manuel Striani, Cristina Gena, Enrico Dolza, Anna Maria Marras, Gian Luca Pozzato, and Rossana Damiano, A sensemaking system for grouping and suggesting stories from multiple affective viewpoints in museums, Human-Computer Interaction, (to appear). Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14117.pdf.

      • 2023
    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Manuel Striani, Stefano Zoia and Rossana Damiano, DEGARI 2.0: A Diversity-Seeking, Knowledge-Based, Explainalable, and Affective Art Recommender for Social Inclusion, Cognitive Systems Research, 2022. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04017.

      • 2022
    • Antonio Lieto Analyzing the Explanatory Power of Bionic Systems With the Minimal Cognitive Grid" Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022.

    • Agnese Augello, Giuseppe Città, Manuel Gentile and Antonio Lieto A Storytelling Robot Managing Persuasive and Ethical Stances via ACT-R: An Exploratory Study, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022. arXiv preprint available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.12845.pdf

    • Manuel Gentile and Antonio Lieto The role of mental rotation in TetrisTM gameplay: An ACT-R computational cognitive model, Cognitive Systems Research, 2022.

    • Enrico Daga, Luigi Asprino, Rossana Damiano, Belen Diaz Agudo, Aldo Gangemi, Tsvi Kuflik, Antonio Lieto, Anna Maria Marras, Delfina Martinez Pandiani, Paul Mulholland, Silvio Peroni, Sofia Pescarin, Alan Wecker. Integrating citizen experiences in cultural heritage archives: requirements, state of the art, and challenges, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 2022.

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Alberto Valese, Mattia Zito A Logic-based Tool for Dynamic Generation and Classification of Musical Content, Proceedings of AI*IA 2022

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Manuel Striani, Rossana Damiano. An Explainable, Affective, Recommender System based on the Commonsense Reasoning Framework Tcl, In AISC 2022.

    • Antonio Lieto, Luigi Asprino, Manuel Striani, Stefano De Giorgis, Rossana Damiano, Aldo Gangemi. D6.3 Prototype of Knowledge based Support Deliverable 6.3, H2020 SPICE Project.

      • 2021
    • Antonio Lieto Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds (Taylor & Francis 2021)

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    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Stefano Zoia, Viviana Patti and Rossana Damiano, A commonsense reasoning framework for explanatory emotion attribution, generation and re-classification, Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 227, 107166, 2021. arXiv preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04017

      • 2020
    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato "A Description Logic Framework for Commonsense Conceptual Combination Integrating Typicality, Probabilities and Cognitive Heuristics", in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), 32 (5), pp. 769-804, 2020.

    • Eleonora Chiodino, Davide Di Luccio, Antonio Lieto, Alberto Messina, Gian Luca Pozzato, Davide Rubinetti "A Knowledge-based System for the Dynamic Generationand Classification of Novel Contents in Multimedia Broadcasting", in ECAI 2020, 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.

    • Eleonora Chiodino, Antonio Lieto, Federico Perrone, and Gian Luca Pozzato "A goal-oriented framework for knowledge invention andcreative problem solving in cognitive architectures", in ECAI 2020, 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.

    • Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Antonio Lieto, Nicola Olivetti and Gian Luca Pozzato "Reasoning about Typicality and Probabilities in Preferential Description Logics", in Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning, Studies in Semantic Web. IOS Press, 2020.

    • Antonio Lieto, "Bounded Rationality and Heuristics in Humans and in Artificial Cognitive Systems", to appear in ISONOMIA (section Epistemologica) ISSN 2037-4348, 2020. PDF-preprint

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato "What cognitive research can do for AI: a case study", in AI*IA 2020.


      • 2019

    • Antonio Lieto, Federico Perrone, Gian Luca Pozzato and Eleonora Chiodino "Beyond Subgoaling: A Dynamic Knowledge Generation Framework for Creative Problem Solving in Cognitive Architectures", Cognitive Systems Research, 58, 305-316, 2019.

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Federico Perrone, and Eleonora Chiodino "Knowledge Capturing via Conceptual Reframing: A Goal-oriented Framework for Knowledge Invention", in K-CAP'19, 10th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2019.

    • Cristina Gena, Pierluigi Grillo, Antonio Lieto, Claudio Mattutino and Fabiana Vernero "When Personalization Is Not an Option: An In-The-Wild Study on Persuasive News Recommendation", Information, vol. 10, no. 10, 300, pp. 1-20, 2019.

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Federico Perrone "A Dynamic Knowledge Generation System for Cognitive Agents", in IEEE ICTAI 2019 Conference, Portland, Nov 4-6, 2019.

    • Antonio Lieto, "Heterogeneous Proxytypes Extended: Integrating Theory-like Representations and Mechanisms with Prototypes and Exemplars", in Proceedings of BICA 2018, Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2019. PDF-preprint

    • Antonio Lieto and Gian Luca Pozzato "Applying a description logic of typicality as a generative tool for concept combination in computational creativity", Intelligenza Artificiale, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 93-106, 2019.

    • Antonio Lieto, Fabio Paglieri "Il Ruolo delle Scienze Cognitive nell’Intelligenza Artificiale del Futuro", in Ital-IA, Primo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale 2019.

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato "Un Sistema di Creatività Computazionale basato su Logiche Non Monotòne per la Generazione di Nuovi Personaggi/Storie/Format in Ambienti Multi-Mediali", in Ital-IA, Primo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale 2019.

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Federico Perrone, and Eleonora Chiodino "A Non Monotonic Reasoning framework for Goal-Oriented Knowledge Adaptation ", Abstract in Proceedings of AISC 2019, Rome.



      • 2018


    • Antonio Lieto, Christian Lebiere and Alessandro Oltramari "The Knowledge Level in Cognitive Architectures: Current Limitations and Possible Developments", in Cognitive Systems Research, Vol 48, pp. 39-55, 2018. (IF 1.2) (Pdf-preprint)

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, A Description Logic of Typicality for Concept Combination, In , Eds, Proceedings of ISMIS 2018 (24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI, Springer, 2018.

    • Antonio Lieto, William G. Kennnedy, Christian Lebiere, Oscar J. Romero, Niels Taatgen, Robert L. West "Higher-level Knowledge, Rational and Social Levels Constraints of the Common Model of the Mind", in Procedia Computer Science, papers from the AAAI 2018 Symposium on the Common Model of Cognition. PDF-preprint

    • Enrico Mensa, Daniele Radicioni and Antonio Lieto, COVER: a linguistic resource combining common sense and lexicographic information. Language Resources and Evaluation, 52(4), 921-948.

    • Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Creative Concept Generation by Combining Description Logic of Typicality, Probabilities and Cognitive Heuristics, In , Eds, Proceedings of AI*IA 2018 (17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI, Springer. 2018.

    • Antonio Lieto, Mehul Bhatt, Alessandro Oltramari and David Vernon "The Role of Cognitive Architectures in General Artificial Intelligence" (Editorial) in Cognitive Systems Research, 2018.
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    • Davide Colla, Enrico Mensa, Daniele P. Radicioni, Antonio Lieto "Tell Me Why: Computational Explanation of Conceptual Similarity Judgments", IPMU 2018, 17th Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems Conference, Cadiz, Spain, June 11-15, 2018.


      • 2017


    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele P. Radicioni and Valentina Rho "Dual PECCS: A Cognitive System for Conceptual Representation and Categorization" in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), Vol. 29(2), pp. 433-452. Taylor and Francis, UK (I.F. 1.7). (PDF Pre-print)

    • Antonio Chella, Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto "Representational Issues in the Debate on the Standard Model of the Mind" in AAAI 2017 Fall Symposium on "A Standard Model of the Mind", Arlington, Virginia, November 9-11, 2017, AAAI Press. (PDF Pre-print)

    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele Radicioni, Valentina Rho and Enrico Mensa "Towards a Unifying Framework for Conceptual Representation and Reasoning in Cognitive Systems" in Intelligenza Artificiale, 11 (2), pp.139-153, 2017, IOS Press.

    • Antonio Lieto, Antonio Chella and Marcello Frixione "Conceptual Spaces for Cognitive Architectures: A Lingua Franca for Different Levels of Representation" in Journal of Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (I.F. 0.8) (BICA), Vol 19, pp-1-9 . PDF-preprint

    • Agnese Augello, Ignazio Infantino, Antonio Lieto, Umberto Maniscalco, Giovanni Pilato, Filippo Vella "Towards A Dual Process Approach to Computational Explanation in Human-Robot Social Interaction" in Proceedings of the IJCAI 2017 Workshop on "Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design, Melbourne, 19-25 August 2017.

    • Antonio Lieto"Representational Limits in Cognitive Architectures" in Ceur-Ws Volume Cognitive Robots Archtiecture, EuCognition Conference, 2017.

    • Rossana Damiano Antonio Lieto, Vincenzo Lombardo "Testing the effectiveness of narrative archetypes for archive exploration" in Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Snowbird, Utah, 5-6 October 2017, AAAI Press.


      • 2016


    • Antonio Lieto, Mehul Bhatt, Alessandro Oltramari and David Vernon (Eds.) "Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2016), New York City, USA", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2016.

    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele P. Radicioni "From Human to Artificial Cognition and Back: New Perspectives on Cognitively Inspired AI Systems", in Cognitive Systems Research, 39, 1-3 (2016), Elsevier Pdf-preprint.

    • Agnese Augello, Ignazio Infantino, Antonio Lieto, Giovanni Pilato, Riccardo Rizzo and Filippo Vella "Artwork creation by a cognitive architecture integrating computational creativity and dual process approaches", in Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Vol. 15, pp. 74-86, (2016). Elsevier.

    • Antonio Lieto, Enrico Mensa and Daniele P. Radicioni "A Resource-Driven Approach for Anchoring Linguistic Resources to Conceptual Spaces" in Springer LNAI, Proceedings of AI*IA 2016, 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence.

    • Antonio Lieto, Enrico Mensa and Daniele P. Radicioni "Taming Sense Sparsity: A Common-Sense Approach in Proceedings of CLIC 2016, Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Naples, Italy.


      • 2015

    • Antonio Lieto, "Some Epistemological Problems with the Knowledge Level in Cognitive Architectures" in Proceedings of AISC 2015, 12th Italian Conference on Cognitive Science, , Genoa, Italy, 10-12 Dec 2015.

    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele P. Radicioni and Valentina Rho, "A Common-Sense Conceptual Categorization System Integrating Heterogeneous Proxytypes and the Dual Process of Reasoning". In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, July 2015 (To appear).

    • Antonio Lieto, Cristina Battaglini, Daniele P. Radicioni and Manuela Sanguinetti (Eds.) "Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2015)", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015.

    • Antonio Lieto, Andrea Minieri, Alberto Piana and Daniele P. Radicioni "A Knowledge-Based System for Prototypical Reasoning", in Connection Science, Vol 27 (2), pp. 137-152, Taylor and Francis, UK.

    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele P.Radicioni, Marcello Frixione and Valentina Rho "Extending Ontological Categorization through a Dual Process Conceptual Architecture" to appear in Selected Papers from the KEOD 2014 Proceedings, LNCS in Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer-Verlag, 2015.

    • Antonio Lieto, Computational Models (of Narrative) for Literary Studies" in Semicerchio, Rivista di Poesia Comparata, Pasini Editore. (2016)

    • Daniele P. Radicioni, Francesca Garbarini, Fabrizio Calzavarini, Monica Biggio, Antonio Lieto, Katiuscia Sacco and Diego Marconi, " On Mental Imagery in Lexical Processing: Computational Modeling of the Visual Load Associated to Concepts". In Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAP-COGSCI 2015).

    • Mark A. Finlayson, Ben Miller, Antonio Lieto, Remi Ronfard (Eds.) "Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)", Atlanta, USA, Open Access Series in Informatics [OASIcs] Vol. 45. Saarbrucken/Wadern, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing..

    • Vincenzo Lombardo, Cristina Battaglino, Antonio Pizzo, Rossana Damiano and Antonio Lieto "Coupling conceptual modeling and rules for the annotation of dramatic media" in Semantic Web Journal, Vol 6 (5), pp. 503-534, IOS Press, Special Issue on Reasoning and Rule Systems.

    • Viviana Patti, Federico Bertola and Antonio Lieto, "ArsEmotica for arsmeteo.org: Emotion-Driven Exploration of Online Art Collections, in Proceedings of FLAIRS-28, 28th Internat. Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, May 18 - 20, 2015, Hollywood, USA, AAAI Press, pp.288-293.


      • 2014


    • Antonio Lieto, "A Computational Framework for Concept Representation in Cognitive Systems and Architectures: Concepts as Heterogeneous Proxytypes" in Proceedings of BICA 2014, 5th Int. Conference of Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, 7-9 Nov. 2014. Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 41 (2014), pp. 6-14.

    • Antonio Lieto and Fabiana Vernero "Influencing the Others’ Minds: an Experimental Evaluation of the Use and Efficacy of Fallacious-reducible Arguments in Web and Mobile Technologies", in PsychNology Journal, Vol.12 (3), pp.87-105, 2014.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "Concepts, Perception and the Dual Process Theories of Mind" in Baltic Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication (eds. E. Machery, J. Prinz and J. Skilters), Vol 9, 2014.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "Towards an Extended Model of Conceptual Representations in Formal Ontologies: A Typicality-Based Proposal" in Journal of Universal Computer Science (IF 0.762), Vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 257-276, 2014.

    • Rossana Damiano, Antonio Lieto, Vincenzo Lombardo "Ontologiy-based Visualization of Cultural Heritage", IEEE Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS 2014, Birmingham, UK.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto, "Formal Ontologies and Semantic Technologies: A Dual Process Proposal for Concept Representation" (pdf of the preprint version), in Philosophia Scientiae, Vol 18 (3), 2014, pp. 139-152.

    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele P. Radicioni and Marco Cruciani "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2014)", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1315, pp. 1-171, 2014.

    • Antonio Lieto, Andrea Minieri, Alberto Piana, Daniele P. Radicioni and Marcello Frixione, "A Dual Process Architecture for Ontology-Based Systems, (pdf pre-print) in Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2014) , 21-24 October 2014, Roma, Italy.

    • Antonio Lieto and Rossana Damiano "A Hybrid Proposal for Representing Narrative Concepts: A Case Study on Characters’ Roles" in Proceedings of CMN'14, 5th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Quebec, Canada, July 31-August 2, 2014.

    • Antonio Lieto, Daniele P. Radicioni and Marco Cruciani "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2014)", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1315, pp. 1-171, 2014.


      • 2013


    • Antonio Lieto, "Un approccio cognitivo alla rappresentazione dei concetti nelle ontologie formali" in Sistemi Intelligenti, (2) 2013, pp. 211-228, Il Mulino, Bologna.

    • Antonio Lieto and Marco Cruciani "Artificial Intelligence and Cognition. Proceedings of the First International Workshop AIC 2013", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1100, pp. 1-145, 2013.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto, "Representing Non Classical Concepts in Formal Ontologies: Prototypes vs Exemplars", in In C.Lai, G.Semeraro, and E.Vargiu editors. New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Volume 439. Springer, 2013.

    • Rossana Damiano, Antonio Lieto, "Ontological representation of narratives: a case study on stories and actions" in Proceedings of CMN13 (Computational Models of Narratives), workshop of the 35th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society CogSci 2013. Hamburg 4-6 August, 2013. Hamburg, Germany.

    • Antonio Lieto and Fabiana Vernero, "Unveiling the link between logical fallacies and web persuasion", in Proceedings of ACM WebSci13 Conference, 2-4 May, Paris. France.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto, "Dealing with Concepts: from Cognitive Psychology to Knowledge Representation", in Frontiers in Psychological and Behavioural Science, Vol. 2, Iss. 3, Jul. 2013, pp. 96-106.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto, " Exemplars, Prototypes and Conceptual Spaces", in Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Volume 196, 131-136, 2013, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.


      • 2008-2012


    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "Representing Concepts in Formal Ontologies: Compositionality vs. Typicality Effects", in Logic and Logical Philosophy. Vol. 21 No. 4, December 2012, pp. 391-414. Special Issue in Logic, Reasoning and Rationality.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "Representing and Reasoning on Typicality in Formal Ontologies in Formal Ontologies", in Proceedings of I-Semantics 2011, 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Sept. 7-9, 2011, Graz, Austria. ACM International Conference Proceedings Series.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "Combining Description Logics and Typicality Effects in Formal Ontologies". In: AI*IA 2011: Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond - XIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "Formal Ontologies, Exemplars, Prototypes". in "Advances in Conceptual Modeling: New Challenges and Development". Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

    • Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto "The Computational Representation of Concepts in Formal Ontologies: some general considerations", In: Proceedings of KEOD 2010, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, 25-28 October 2010, Valencia. Spain.

    • Ernesto D'Avanzo, Annibale Elia, Tsvi Kuflik, Antonio Lieto, Rossella Preziosi "Where Does Text Mining Meets Knowledge Management? A Case Study", In: Interdisciplinary Aspect of Information Systems Studies. D'Atri A., De Marco M., Casalino N. (a cura di), Heidelberg ; New York, N.Y.: Physica-Verlag, 2008, p. 100-107.


      • Thesis of the last co-supervised Students

      Valentina Rho, University of Torino, Dept. of Computer Science, Estensione di un sistema ibrido per la rappresentazione della conoscenza e integrazione con l’architettura cognitiva ACT-R, (Master thesis).

      Mattia Ognibene, University of Torino, Dept. of Computer Science, Integrazione di un sistema ibrido per la rappresentazione e categorizzazione concettuale nell’architettura cognitiva CLARION, (Master thesis).

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